NOW CLOSED ; List some movies you've watched recently. Theatre, rental, TV... and give a */10

[Ajay]

AVA 5/10. Fight scenes were sooo bad. Chastain's character would grab a guy by the shirt and flip him over her shoulder and body slam him to the floor with Zero Leverage! I didn't know this was a superhero movie

 

[MrSquished]

AVA 5/10. Fight scenes were sooo bad. Chastain's character would grab a guy by the shirt and flip him over her shoulder and body slam him to the floor with Zero Leverage! I didn't know this was a superhero movie

Was looking to watch something last night and saw that it was #1 on Netflix. Read some reviews and it sounded like a giant waste of some talented actors/actresses.

 

[MrSquished]

The Assistant - 6.5/10 - Girl from Ozarks is in this. Kinda not sure what to make of it but it was kind of dull and anti-climactic. Basically a day in the life of an assistant working for a high powered tv/movie executive dealing with and watching him basically kinda shit on people, without ever seeing the guy. Definitely a bit of a different type of movie. Better than a totally mindless action flick at this point.

Drugstore Cowboy - 8/10 - older movie starting Matt Dillon and directed by Gus Van Sant. Story of a bunch of addicts. Some fun stuff in there.

 

[snoopy7548]

The Assistant - 6.5/10 - Girl from Ozarks is in this. Kinda not sure what to make of it but it was kind of dull and anti-climactic. Basically a day in the life of an assistant working for a high powered tv/movie executive dealing with and watching him basically kinda shit on people, without ever seeing the guy. Definitely a bit of a different type of movie. Better than a totally mindless action flick at this point.

Drugstore Cowboy - 8/10 - older movie starting Matt Dillon and directed by Gus Van Sant. Story of a bunch of addicts. Some fun stuff in there.

I love Drugstore Cowboy. It's great seeing William S. Burroughs, even if only for a few minutes.

 

[ultimatebob]

So, I just watched Recipe For Desire on the Lifetime network with my wife. It was pretty much a spot on perfect parody of the Christmasy Lifetime/Hallmark Romance movie. It even had an unexpected cliffhanger ending! I'm giving this one an 8 out of 10. I needed a laugh after all of those foreign language dramas.

Also, I suddenly find myself hungry for fried chicken. Well played, KFC... well played.

 

[Ackmed]

Like most people have been watching a lot of tv, and some very good shows/movies.

Peanut Butter Falcon, 8.5/10. Just a really, really good flick. A feel good movie I suppose, and it nails it. Shows some real life stuff, people struggling being poor and trying to survive. Having walls built up, but someone comes along and tears them down. I dont really care for Shia LaBeouf as a person, but he did an incredible job acting in this movie and I commend him for it. Its on Prime if interested.

 

[DigDog]

Like most people have been watching a lot of tv, and some very good shows/movies.

Peanut Butter Falcon, 8.5/10. Just a really, really good flick. A feel good movie I suppose, and it nails it. Shows some real life stuff, people struggling being poor and trying to survive. Having walls built up, but someone comes along and tears them down. I dont really care for Shia LaBeouf as a person, but he did an incredible job acting in this movie and I commend him for it. Its on Prime if interested.

i just watched The Peanut Butter Falcon - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4364194/

starring Shia LaBeuf as a trainwreck and Dakota Johnson as a not so bad .. uh. .. girl. thing.

Unlikable hero Tyler is caught stealing crab pots in South Carolina and gets fired from his job, and a bunch of guys want to beat him up too. He's on the run, and meets a 20yo boy with down syndrome who is also on the run. Tyler's heart softens and he takes care of the boy, but who's taking care of who ?
The boy wants to go join Saltwater Redneck's Awesome School of Wrestling to become a Badass and tyler agrees to take him there. They bump into the boy's social worker who at first is like noo, you gotta play by the rules, but eventually decides to tag along.
In the end nothing really happens but the treasure was the friends we made along the way.


Aaaand it's the same story you've seen before. And nothing's really great.
The catch here should be that the boy has down syndrome, but, if the film says we should see past that, well, once we do, there's not much left if not a plain ol, simple, unexciting road movie. And you've seen better road movies.

6.9/10

 

[Muse]

Die Hard 5.5/10
The Bourne Identity 9.5/10

Watched these in successive nights. I bought the Die Hard 5 Star Collection DVDs ~15 years ago, have seen the movie 4 times now. I got it because a lot of people reported watching it many times, a fave. Plus, it's a Christmas movie, sort of and we're ~10 days shy. Honestly, it's a hot mess. Believability factor is down around your ankles. It tries to appeal to your baser instincts in a lot of ways. Ego sucker. Dumb characterizations, loses its way, and they should have taken Ebert's advice to not have characters dumber than your average audience member. Cardinal mistake.

The Bourne Identity, OTOH, is a smart movie, really well cast and acted, believable characters throughout. Stands the test of time very nicely. Seen it about 4 times now, last night the first since 2006. Still works for me. I have The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum DVDs too, and figure to watch them in the coming ~10 days. The sequels have the rare quality of having higher and higher Rotten Tomato ratings as they go along!

Edit: Ah, I see there are 2 more Bourne releases, 2012 and 2016, The Bourne Legacy and Jason Bourne. I figure the last 2 are likely inferior. Anyone know?

 

[PingSpike]

I watched Cold Mountain for the first time. Renee Zellweger got that Oscar the hard way; she earned it. I’ve never been a fan of Nicole Kidman but she did good in this movie.

I actually thought Nicole Kidman's accent was pretty bad in Cold Mountain, and of course she was completely upstaged by Zellweger. I didn't catch the Odyssey parallels while first watching it. Great movie.

 

[PingSpike]

Edit: Ah, I see there are 2 more Bourne releases, 2012 and 2016, The Bourne Legacy and Jason Bourne. I figure the last 2 are likely inferior. Anyone know?

There's to much shaky cam in the later movies for me, loved the first Bourne movie but none of the sequels really improved on the first. It has the best fight scenes and car chase and aside from a kind of weak female lead I like its story better, perhaps because its just a simpler cleaner one than the sequels.

I did like that pretty much every Bourne movie features Bourne fighting some one with a real weapon like a knife while only armed with an improvised one like a pen or a rolled up magazine, lol.

 

[DigDog]

Die Hard 5.5/10
The Bourne Identity 9.5/10

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Edit: Ah, I see there are 2 more Bourne releases, 2012 and 2016, The Bourne Legacy and Jason Bourne. I figure the last 2 are likely inferior. Anyone know?

they are, but i'm hesitant to say so; i cannot fathom the mind of a man who does not love Die Hard.

To me, Die Hard is the epitome of popcorn films. I love ALL the characters in that film, back when characters were simpler. As far as i remember, John McLane was considered "deep" back in 1988. It's the perfect story that every kid wants to hear:
1. the good guy is rough and gruff. He's not charming or suave but he believes in himself.
2. the bad guy is bad. He's also decently down to earth - wants to steal a whole bunch of american dollah. Not a psycho who we all secretly relate to or a tormented soul.
3. the good guy doesn't say he's sorry to the girl who dumped him. He shows up, beats up a bunch of bad guys, beats his chest, and his machismo wins her back.

What can you not like here. I mean, saying this film isn't realistic, is like saying Home Alone or Shreck aren't realistic. They are escapism, which is 100% what i want out of a film, while Joker is 100% NOT what i want in a film. Give me that ol' firebreating dragon and white knight in shining armor any day, and you can keep you failing marriages, fear of death, and other existentialist bullshit.

 

[HomerJS]

The Undoing with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant. Psychological thriller. I give it a 8.5/10. Besides Matilda De Angelis loves getting butt assed naked.

 

[Muse]

they are, but i'm hesitant to say so; i cannot fathom the mind of a man who does not love Die Hard.

To me, Die Hard is the epitome of popcorn films. I love ALL the characters in that film, back when characters were simpler. As far as i remember, John McLane was considered "deep" back in 1988. It's the perfect story that every kid wants to hear:
1. the good guy is rough and gruff. He's not charming or suave but he believes in himself.
2. the bad guy is bad. He's also decently down to earth - wants to steal a whole bunch of american dollah. Not a psycho who we all secretly relate to or a tormented soul.
3. the good guy doesn't say he's sorry to the girl who dumped him. He shows up, beats up a bunch of bad guys, beats his chest, and his machismo wins her back.

What can you not like here. I mean, saying this film isn't realistic, is like saying Home Alone or Shreck aren't realistic. They are escapism, which is 100% what i want out of a film, while Joker is 100% NOT what i want in a film. Give me that ol' firebreating dragon and white knight in shining armor any day, and you can keep you failing marriages, fear of death, and other existentialist bullshit.

The villain in Die Hard was no perfect creation. He was absurdly cast as a pseudo-intellectual who talked down to everybody including his underlings. "Down to earth?" Give me a fucking break.

The whole thief posse was ridiculous. Not a semi-believable character among them. In fact everybody in the movie was a caricature. Eat all the popcorn you want.

McClane a tough guy? He couldn't even fly from NY to L.A. without throwing his lunch.

TBH I hate Shreck, can't stand it, and don't remember seeing Home Alone, OK?

Escapism isn't high on my list of priorities, TBH. Dragons? Puuulease. Sorry to stomp on your Die Hard loving good time. Deal with it.

 

[Muse]

There's to much shaky cam in the later movies for me, loved the first Bourne movie but none of the sequels really improved on the first. It has the best fight scenes and car chase and aside from a kind of weak female lead I like its story better, perhaps because its just a simpler cleaner one than the sequels.

I did like that pretty much every Bourne movie features Bourne fighting some one with a real weapon like a knife while only armed with an improvised one like a pen or a rolled up magazine, lol.

Yeah, I remember Greengrass's shaky cam in The Bourne Ultimatum was overboard. I've seen him do that in his other directorial adventures. There's some shaky cam in The Bourne Identity, but it's nice and subtle.

I could do without the car chase. Those seldom work for me and like just about all the others, this goes on too long. To me, it's the only weak point in the movie. Some scenes could have been shorter, like the foot chase in the field, but the car chase, ugh. It's such a cliche. And they're usually really really dumb, and this was just that. I want to see an intelligent car chase. Something BELIEVABLE. I suppose there are some. You know, brief, believable. Get it over with in 45 seconds and move on.

 

[HomerJS]

So, I just watched Recipe For Desire on the Lifetime network with my wife. It was pretty much a spot on perfect parody of the Christmasy Lifetime/Hallmark Romance movie. It even had an unexpected cliffhanger ending! I'm giving this one an 8 out of 10. I needed a laugh after all of those foreign language dramas.

Also, I suddenly find myself hungry for fried chicken. Well played, KFC... well played.

I saw what you did!

Felt it necessary to inform us watching with your wife because it's Lifetime/Hallmark

Hehe!

 

[ultimatebob]

I saw what you did!

Felt it necessary to inform us watching with your wife because it's Lifetime/Hallmark

Hehe!

Heh... I'm not the target audience for that kind of movie, so I needed an excuse to watch it

She thought that it was as silly as I did.

 

[HomerJS]

Heh... I'm not the target audience for that kind of movie, so I needed an excuse to watch it

She thought that it was as silly as I did.

Smart move. Had an ex who liked Sex in the City. I was a faithful watcher

 

[ultimatebob]

Smart move. Had an ex who liked Sex in the City. I was a faithful watcher

Did you ever notice that there really wasn't all that much actual sex in Sex and the City? It was mostly a bunch of entitled white chicks meeting up and complaining about their life problems.

 

[HomerJS]

Did you ever notice that there really wasn't all that much actual sex in Sex and the City? It was mostly a bunch of entitled white chicks meeting up and complaining about their life problems.

I recall most of the actual sex was Kim Cattrall. I had a dichotomy that she also liked two and a Half Men and was a fan of a Playboy reality show. Which was fine but she had meltdown finding nudity on my computer.

Never understood that.

 

[MtnMan]

Thanks guys, took a look over at YouTube, not a fan of anime apparently. Plus, I don't speak Japanese. Not a fan of subtitles and dubs (which rules out otherwise excellent movies from Europe, etc.).

My main gripe with streaming services is that I cannot filter on Audio language. I haven't found anything enjoyable about having to read a movie. Netflix, etc., are you listening... show me only English language stuff.

 

[HomerJS]

AVA 5/10. Fight scenes were sooo bad. Chastain's character would grab a guy by the shirt and flip him over her shoulder and body slam him to the floor with Zero Leverage! I didn't know this was a superhero movie

Agree 100%. I didn't even want to mention it. Movie would have been better her just being a spy who can't fight.

Want a movie with hot assassin try Anna. I gave that a 7/10

 

[PingSpike]

Agree 100%. I didn't even want to mention it. Movie would have been better her just being a spy who can't fight.

Want a movie with hot assassin try Anna. I gave that a 7/10

Not really an assassin movie but Atomic Blonde was a cool spy movie with some brutal fights.

 

[mikeymikec]

@Muse

Of all the things to mark Bourne Identity up and Die Hard 1 down for... plausibility?

I think maybe you should consider that your bias is making you go easy on one film and harder on the other. On a similar vein, it's also a little odd IMO to mark John McClane down for fear of flying when Jason Bourne goes around with headaches, amnesia and flashbacks throughout the movie. IMO characters without flaws/weaknesses are just plain boring.

I like both movies, but I've honestly never thought of comparing them. DH1 is more of an up-front action blockbuster. I like that it shows two guys who look like they're in an actual fight rather than using carefully choreographed kung-fu shit, there's some great dialogue, I love the husband-and-wife relationship dynamic in it, that it shows the husband being a complete dick (I can see where he's coming from, but still) and owning it and the scene where he's talking to the sergeant because he thinks he won't see her again, the coked up salesman, the dickhead reporter, I could go on. It's unashamedly an 80s certificate-18 movie but a well-made one, back before Hollywood realised that they can make a lot more money by making PG films and watering everything down.

The Bourne Identity is a completely different movie. The plot is cheesy (black ops super-duper government assassins with codenames, amnesia), its pacing is generally slow and the tone moody, the protagonist characters maintain a low profile as much as they can, and the main character wants out. The action is engaging but the violence is the more modern sort I described earlier in this post. For me at least it brought a completely different style of secret agent to the genre where James Bond had previously dominated, and it had such an effect on the genre that Bond films started emulating Jason Bourne movies.

Both movies IMO are as plausible as they need to be and don't do anything that stretches the bounds of plausibility within the scenario they're asking me to believe in. Both ask for a fair amount of latitude considering the scenarios they present.

If I had to pick a winner I'd say DH1 because the characters are more interesting and 'go somewhere' in the movie. BI's characters are (mostly) pretty superficial, uninteresting and apart from the protagonists, either end up dead or not dead, there's little more than that.

The Bourne Supremacy IMO is a significantly better movie (than BI) with regard to the characters.

 

[shortylickens]

I caught up on a bunch of films.

The remake of Godfather III is still not a great experience, but less terrible.

 

[HomerJS]

I caught up on a bunch of films.

The remake of Godfather III is still not a great experience, but less terrible.

Like Chernobyl, not great, not terrible?